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Wastage of Vadret dal Corvatsch, Eastern Switzerland, over the last 5 decades. This Friday is the first International Day of #Glaciers. Let's all work to preserve this beauty of nature!

🏙️⚡️Buildings plan their own #energy demands: Empa scientists develop predictive control algorithm to optimize #energymanagement for the building. empa.ch/web/s604/build… #renewables #renewableenergy

📜 👨‍🏫 Sven Najem-Meyer explores the intersection of machine learning and classical studies, tackling the challenges of document processing for texts in Ancient Greek. On March 27, he will compete in the finals of “My Thesis in 180 Seconds” go.epfl.ch/OMN-en

👩‍⚕️ 🔬The microorganisms in our intestines play an important role in many bodily processes, from digestion to emotions, and are a key factor in our overall health. A number of modern diseases could be traced to disturbances in the gut microbiome. go.epfl.ch/iKU-en

⚛️ 💻To get around the constraints of quantum physics, researchers have built a new acoustic system to study the way the minuscule atoms of condensed matter talk together. They hope to one day build an acoustic version of a quantum computer. go.epfl.ch/GXJ-en

Empa researchers are developing #sensors that quickly identify antibiotic-resistant #bacteria, enabling life-saving treatments. A crucial step in the fight against the "silent pandemic" of antibiotic resistance. empa.ch/web/s604/antib… #antimicrobial #antibiotics #silentpandemic

🔒💻 Encryption protects data in transit, but what if it hides criminal activity? Ana-Maria Cretu from EPFL’s Security and Privacy Engineering Lab weighs in on safety vs. privacy. go.epfl.ch/Jc4-en

🎓 📈 Davide Bavato had long been torn between the academic world and his love of entrepreneurship – then he found a way to combine the best of both. Bavato was recently named the best teacher in EPFL’s management of technology and entrepreneurship section go.epfl.ch/4JR-en

🤖 🗣️ Small language models are more reliable and secure than their large counterparts, primarily because they draw information from a circumscribed dataset. Expect to see more chatbots running on these slimmed-down alternatives in the coming months. go.epfl.ch/b7s-en

☀️ 🔋 Researchers have found a way to dramatically reducing energy loss and boosting efficiency perovskite solar cells by incorporating rubidium using lattice strain—a slight deformation in the atomic structure that helps keep rubidium in place. go.epfl.ch/2Af-en

🌱 ♻️ Scientists from our institution have developed a scalable method to produce porous graphene membranes that efficiently separate carbon dioxide. The breakthrough could significantly reduce the cost and footprint of carbon capture technology. go.epfl.ch/k8a-en

🚀🤖 Gustave Lapierre is a sharp entrepreneur who co-founded a promising AI text analysis startup with his brother and friends. The Blaze program and its grant helped launch their venture into the tech ecosystem. go.epfl.ch/Zxy-en

🪨 Iron-rich hematite, commonly found in rocks and soil, turns out to have magnetic properties that make it a promising material for ultrafast next-generation computing. This finding comes from our Lab of Nanoscale Magnetic Materials & Magnonics. go.epfl.ch/b7a69c

Exploring the Moon’s subsurface with LunarLeaper: Anna Mittelholz told Universe Today this could be potentially game-changing. Check out everything you want to know about those lava tubes and how to explore them: universetoday.com/articles/explo…

🔬🦠 Suliana Manley has a brilliant career as a biophysicist, being the first to visualize some of the smallest building blocks of life in action and explain their mysterious behavior. Now she helps shape the community by developing others. go.epfl.ch/wpu-en

👨‍🔬 ☀️ Kevin Sivula is driven by curiosity to understand the nature of chemical systems for direct solar to fuel energy conversion. His love of color change has been a common thread throughout his endeavors. go.epfl.ch/WoW-en

☁️❄️ EPFL scientists reveal that biological particles can trigger ice formation in clouds, potentially intensifying floods and snowstorms. They urge updates to weather and climate models. go.epfl.ch/UGG-en

Check out our #ICRA2025 paper ! Robust, precise, and terrain-aware—our RL controller significantly improves over baselines for whole-body 6-DoF tracking.💥 Project website: leggedrobotics.github.io/wholebody-pose… Work led by: Tifanny Portela, Andrei Cramariuc, Mayank Mittal and Marco Hutter

Congratulations to EPFL spin-off Timeline for being named a Milestone 1 Award Winner in the XPRIZE Healthspan competition. It is one of the Top 40 global teams advancing innovative, safe, and science-backed approaches to extend healthy human function. timeline.com/blog/xprize-he…

📖 💻 The vast majority of students now use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) programs on a regular basis. Can teachers get students past the principle of least effort and turn these programs into educational tools? go.epfl.ch/qxI-en